201. El catolicismo social de la Acción Católica Argentina en la década de 1930.
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FUNKNER, Mariana E.
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SOCIAL problems , *CATHOLIC women , *CATHOLICS , *LIVING conditions , *PERIODICAL publishing - Abstract
The promulgation of Rerum Novarum by pope León XIII, in 1891, expressed the concern of the catholic Church for the social issue. The pontiff identified the social problem with the workers' question and established proposals to improve the living conditions of workers: one of them was tripartite cooperation between Church, State and employers/workers. The encyclical had profound repercussions in the world and Argentina was no exception. The country was fertile ground for the development of proposals that social catholicism sought to deploy. The passage through the first decades of the 20th century showed that there was no crisis of religion, no retraction of catholicism, no decline of confessional institutions, no triumph of the secular nation, on the contrary, catholicism was a key piece for the construction of modern Argentina. In the 1930s, the Argentine Catholic Church began a process of Christianization of society, while seeking to expand social Catholicism. In this context, the ecclesial hierarchy created the Argentine Catholic Action (ACA) and a specific branch within it to address the social issue, the Social Economic Secretariat (SES). The present work studies the protagonism of the laity in the ACA and in its social department, the SES, through which the Argentine Catholic Church centralized social action. The documentary material that supports the study is made up of statutes, regulations, reports, magazines published by catholic associations, the official bulletin of Catholic Action, as well as academic studies that have worked on the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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